Crazy Sam’s Saturday 9: Shut Up + Dance (2014)
On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun…
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) This is about a man who meets the woman who is his destiny on the dance floor. Do you think we each have One Great Love preordained by fate? Or do you think life offers each of us many opportunities for romance?
I think there are many people out there for sex you just have to find the right one for romance.
2) Lead singer Nick Petricca says this song is inspired by a true story. He was all keyed up and his girlfriend dragged him onto the dance floor, insisting that dancing would cheer him up. Therefore he considers this song an "anthem to letting go and having fun." Think of the last time you really had fun. Who were you with? What were you doing?
I was with a group of people and we went out to dinner. Good friends, good food, and good wine makes for a nice evening.
3) The dance floor incident that inspired this song took place in Echo Park, an LA neighborhood located near Elysian Park and Chinatown. Tell us about your village or city. Do the neighborhoods have interesting names?
Nope, it is just another boring suburb or as my father called it “a bedroom town” mean everyone drove to work someplace else and drove home at night.
4) Walk the Moon promoted this record by a performance on Good Morning America. Are you enthusiastic and energetic at 7:00 AM? Or do you hit your stride later in the day?
I’m a morning person.
5) "Shut Up + Dance" is the biggest hit by Walk the Moon. The bandmembers met as at Kenyon, Ohio's oldest private college. Tell us about something that's old and revered where you live.
The original Yankee Peddler came from town; all winter they made tinware and sold them during the summer.
6) Walk the Moon took their name from the Police song, "Walking on the Moon." What's your favorite song by Sting and/or The Police?
Fields of Gold
7) In 2014, the year this song was popular, Robin Williams took his own life. What's your favorite Robin Williams performance?
Moscow On The Hudson
Real story… one of my bosses escaped from Hungary during the height of the cold war and he immigrated here. He was told to go the state labor department to look for a job, so he asked the clerk where he was supposed to work. The clerk gave him a blank stare and you have to find a job we just have a list of companies hiring engineers, this was totally foreign to him in Hungary they assign you a job. He said that was the biggest shock he had but toilet paper and coffee was high up there. We were talking about the movie Moscow on the Hudson which just came out in the movies.
8) Also in 2014, the Apple Watch was introduced. Are you wearing a watch as you answer these 9 questions?
Yes, I always wear a watch.
9) Random question -- You must create a coat of arms for yourself, representing your life and spirit. Which of these items would you place at the center: a heart, a sword, or a pen?
A sword protecting a heart.
I was planning on coming home from the Cape on Monday but the weather is going to be yucky rainy and then hot and humid so I might come home today.
The main reason I came up was to mow the grass, get a beach permit, and get delivery of a set of bunk beds for one of the bed rooms. Right now as I write this it is clouding over killing the sunset so no good sunset pics.
On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun…
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) This is about a man who meets the woman who is his destiny on the dance floor. Do you think we each have One Great Love preordained by fate? Or do you think life offers each of us many opportunities for romance?
I think there are many people out there for sex you just have to find the right one for romance.
2) Lead singer Nick Petricca says this song is inspired by a true story. He was all keyed up and his girlfriend dragged him onto the dance floor, insisting that dancing would cheer him up. Therefore he considers this song an "anthem to letting go and having fun." Think of the last time you really had fun. Who were you with? What were you doing?
I was with a group of people and we went out to dinner. Good friends, good food, and good wine makes for a nice evening.
3) The dance floor incident that inspired this song took place in Echo Park, an LA neighborhood located near Elysian Park and Chinatown. Tell us about your village or city. Do the neighborhoods have interesting names?
Nope, it is just another boring suburb or as my father called it “a bedroom town” mean everyone drove to work someplace else and drove home at night.
4) Walk the Moon promoted this record by a performance on Good Morning America. Are you enthusiastic and energetic at 7:00 AM? Or do you hit your stride later in the day?
I’m a morning person.
5) "Shut Up + Dance" is the biggest hit by Walk the Moon. The bandmembers met as at Kenyon, Ohio's oldest private college. Tell us about something that's old and revered where you live.
The original Yankee Peddler came from town; all winter they made tinware and sold them during the summer.
6) Walk the Moon took their name from the Police song, "Walking on the Moon." What's your favorite song by Sting and/or The Police?
Fields of Gold
7) In 2014, the year this song was popular, Robin Williams took his own life. What's your favorite Robin Williams performance?
Moscow On The Hudson
Real story… one of my bosses escaped from Hungary during the height of the cold war and he immigrated here. He was told to go the state labor department to look for a job, so he asked the clerk where he was supposed to work. The clerk gave him a blank stare and you have to find a job we just have a list of companies hiring engineers, this was totally foreign to him in Hungary they assign you a job. He said that was the biggest shock he had but toilet paper and coffee was high up there. We were talking about the movie Moscow on the Hudson which just came out in the movies.
8) Also in 2014, the Apple Watch was introduced. Are you wearing a watch as you answer these 9 questions?
Yes, I always wear a watch.
9) Random question -- You must create a coat of arms for yourself, representing your life and spirit. Which of these items would you place at the center: a heart, a sword, or a pen?
A sword protecting a heart.
I was planning on coming home from the Cape on Monday but the weather is going to be yucky rainy and then hot and humid so I might come home today.
The main reason I came up was to mow the grass, get a beach permit, and get delivery of a set of bunk beds for one of the bed rooms. Right now as I write this it is clouding over killing the sunset so no good sunset pics.
I SOOOO agree with you on #7. It's a movie that's unfairly overshadowed by some of Robin Williams' lighter performances. I love the story about the clerk from Hungary, too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the story of your boss. I don't think we always appreciate how good we have it here.
ReplyDeleteFields of Gold is a wonderful song, I think. I'm glad we both chose it!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed Moscow on the Hudson, too.
ReplyDeleteI love how many people answered Moscow on the Hudson.
ReplyDeleteWe have not had a decent sunset in over a week around here.